Chellomedia has announced the consolidation of its thematic channel ad sales business in Central Europe. It has also extended the role of Marcin Boroszko, the MD of its Warsaw-based ad sales representation business At Media, to the region as a whole. Boroszko has been MD of At Media since its acquisition by UPC in 1999, […]

Phill Robinson has been named as the chief executive officer of digital asset delivery network specialists CacheLogic replacing Pat Chapman-Pincher. He joins from salesforce.com having previously been a part of the management teams for Oracle, Sybase and Siebel. Robinson said that consumer expectations of the Internet had risen sharply and could not always be met. […]

Canal+ is to shift the focus of its operations in the Nordic region, moving from a centralised management towards the development of the pay-TV channel in the individual countries, and has appointed Caspar Berntzen as managing director for Canal+ in Finland. The 39-year old has previously been managing director of Egmont Entertainment/Nordisk Film in Finland […]

Ofcom has appointed Jill Ainscough as its new chief operating officer. The post has been left vacant since the appointment of Ed Richards as Ofcom’s chief executive in 2006. The COO role oversees several of Ofcom’s technology and spectrum operations as well as organisation, planning and development. Ainscough was most recently managing director of Easynet, […]

Pier Francesco Guarguaglini has joined Eutelsat’s Board of Directors. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Finmeccanica, a leading Italian industrial group operating globally in the aerospace, defence and security sectors. The Eutelsat board has also co-opted Jean-Luc Archambault, the CEO of Lysios, and Betrand Mabille, COO of SFR Entreprises, as directors. All three […]

Russia’s Sistema-backed Comstar UTS has appointed Alexander Kirillov as its new CTO. Kirillov, who replaces Wolfgang Breuer, was most recently the deputy DG of technical director of OJSC CenterTelecom. In his new role he will be responsible for – amongst other things – expanding the company’s broadband capabilities and launching a WiMax network in the […]

Jesus de Polanco, the Spanish media mogul and chairman of the Prisa Group, died in Madrid on Saturday after a long illness. He was 77. Prisa’s interests include a number of left leaning media outlets including the daily El Pais and the Cadena SER radio station. It is also the principal shareholder in Sogecable, the […]

Gábor Kereszty has been appointed VP for content development at ProSiebenSat.1. At the same time, the role of CEO he has occupied at MTM-SBS, the owners of the Hungarian national commercial station TV2, will be assumed by Zoltán Várdy. Vardy is currently both VP for sales at ProSiebenSat1 and director of sales at TV2. ProSiebenSat.1 […]